SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Australian Jockey Club spring meeting was successfully started to-day, but with several of the most prominent horses likely to go to ...
Article : 4,986 wordsIn flights at Potsdam, Germany, the American aviator, Mr. Orville Wright, has beaten all high-flying records. By ascending to a height of 700ft., he ...
Article : 128 wordsPresident Taft, who is touring the western portion of the United Slates, has had an exciting experience at Portland, Oregon, winch is, next to San Francisco, the most ...
Article : 210 wordsThe fifth series of wool sales closed to-day. Closing prides were firm at full late rates. The following prices were obtained for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,082 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—By the Vancouver mail steamer Makara on Saturday there arrived Dr. E. S. Cunnhigham, who represented "The Argus" at the Imperial Press ...
Article : 567 wordsDuring the debate on the Budget proposals in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Rowland Hunt, Unionist member for the Ludlow Division of Shropshire, made ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsHis Excellency the Governor will visit Benalla on Wednesday, in order to be present at the agricultural show, and will return to Melbourne the same evening. ...
Article : 706 wordsThe aeroplane which Messrs. J. and N. Tait are taking to Australia for purposes of exhibition has been shipped by the R.M.S. Otranto, one of the new Orient ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company Limited, dated 1st inst.:—"The sales closed firm, and prices ...
Article : 623 words"The Times" states that members of the House of Commons regard the petition being prepared by city bankers and merchants for presentation to the House of Lords as a ...
Article : 114 wordsAnother hot engagement has been fought between the Spanish troops and the Riff tribesmen in Morocco, and though the Spaniards prevailed then casualties were ...
Article : 109 wordsThe National Geographical Society of the United States, of which Dr. Cook is a member, has declined to accord him official recognition on the occasion of his lecturing ...
Article : 76 wordsSpeaking to his constituents at Louth, Sir Robert Perks (Liberal) declared that the party was marching to disaster. The position, he said, was the same as in ...
Article : 78 wordsCommander Peary, aboard the Arctic ship Roosevelt, has reached New York. He retened an enthusiastic and popular welcome, and is participating in the ...
Article : 43 wordsAfter the United States fleet returned from its tour round the world, a movement was inaugurated to present the Japanese navy with a gold loving cup, in token of ...
Article : 68 wordsCaptain Creswell the Commonwealth naval commandant who came to London in connection with the Defence Conference, sailed on his return voyage to Australia by ...
Article : 125 wordsLord Hugh Cecil, a leading member of the Unionist party, who will seek to re-enter the House of Commons as member for Oxford at the forthcoming election, has ...
Article : 137 wordsPresident Taft proposes to ask Congress to devote 7,000,000 dollars (£1,400,000) out of the annual profit from the foreign mail services of the United States to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—It appears to be not absolutely certain that the deadlock in the wool trade is at end. Buyers and sellers would appear to have carried away from ...
Article : 410 wordsThe Assembly at Cape Town do not share the opinion expressed by the Premier (Mr. Merriman) that it would conduce to reckless navigation if additional lighthouses ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following are the Frozen Meat Trade Association's market quotations, based on actual sales of not less than 100 careases of mutton or lamb or 25 quarters of beef of ...
Article : 610 wordsThe central body of unemployment in London has resolved to call the attention of the Prime Minister (Mr Asquith) to the fact that the Unemployed Act is quite ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Canadian Pacific Railway Company has sold nearly 1,000,000 acres of irrigated land, lying to the east and south of Calgary, on the company's line, 840 miles west ...
Article : 69 wordsOn Saturday the steamer Niwaru and the barques C.J.S. and Bianchetto reached port, after a voyage across the Indian Ocean, without bringing tidings of the missing liner ...
Article : 202 wordsA second chapter was added to the story of Geoffrey Colquhoun, formerly house steward of the Warrnambool Hospital, who, as reported in Saturday's issue of "The ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Law Society has passed a resolution in favour of conferring limited divorce jurisdiction upon County Courts. The object of the suggestion is to bring ...
Article : 72 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A severe wind-storm suddenly struck Sydney at a quarter to 5 o'clock this afternoon from the south-west. There were scores of capsizes in the ...
Article : 340 wordsAn extrordinary suicide took place at a theatre in Paris yesterday evening A Paris girl had a quarrel with her lover, who was a lion tamer at the Theatre ...
Article : 75 wordsBurns Philp, and Company's new steamer, the Mataram, has had a successful trial trip on the Clyde. The Mataram was constructed for ...
Article : 130 wordsThe New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited will hold their opening sale of the season at the Wool Exchange, Collins-street west, to-morrow, at ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Hannan's Star and Boulder Deep Levels G M companies have held a joint meeting of shareholders in London at which the amalgation and guarentee ...
Article : 38 wordsAn ingenious swindle was successfully carried out upon one of the English delegates to the Commerce Congress while the party was in Sydney. The perpetrator had ...
Article : 417 wordsBROKEN HILL, Saturday.—Ever since the resumption of work on the Proprietary mine deliberate attempts have been made by unknown persons to do damage to the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe last of Madame Melba's country concerts will take place at Colac on Wednesday Madame Melba's remaining public appearances in Melbourne will be at the farewell ...
Article : 157 wordsExceptionally cold and boisterous weather prevailed at sea and in Pott Phillip yesterday. Blowing with considerable force from the westward, the wind frequently ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Yorkshire "Post" strongly criticises the attitude of the woolbrokers, in the dispute with the buyers in Sydney. It declares that Australian wool-brokers ...
Article : 75 wordsUnfortunately for eight adventurous stowways who hid themselves on the "Tyser" liner Niwaru, their unwelcome presence was discovered ...
Article : 98 wordsFred Thomas Cox, late of Glenrowan, but now of Tatong, baker. Causes of insolvency—Losses incurred in bakery business at Glenrowan, and bad debts incurred. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 4 Oct 1909, Page 7
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